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1858 in Wales

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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1858toWales and its people.

• Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey – Henry Paget, 2nd Marquess of Anglesey^[1][2][3][4]
• Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire – John Lloyd Vaughan Watkins^[5][6]
• Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire – Sir Richard Williams-Bulkeley, 10th Baronet^[7]
• Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – Edward Pryse^[8]
• Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – John Campbell, 1st Earl Cawdor
• Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire – Robert Myddelton Biddulph^[9]
• Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire – Sir Stephen Glynne, 9th Baronet^[10]
• Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – Christopher Rice Mansel Talbot^[11]
• Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire – Robert Davies Pryce^[12]
• Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire – Capel Hanbury Leigh^[13]
• Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – Charles Hanbury-Tracy, 1st Baron Sudeley (until 10 February);^[14] Thomas Hanbury-Tracy, 2nd Baron Sudeley (from 4 March)
• Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Sir John Owen, 1st Baronet^[15]
• Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – John Walsh, 1st Baron Ormathwaite^[16][2]

• Bishop of Bangor – Christopher Bethell^[17][18]
• Bishop of Llandaff – Alfred Ollivant^[19][20]
• Bishop of St Asaph – Thomas Vowler Short^[21][22][20]
• Bishop of St Davids – Connop Thirlwall^[23][20][24]

• January
  • Teaching begins at Bangor Normal College, founded by Hugh Owen.
  • End of Aberdare Strike 1857-8 in the coal mining industry.
• 20 April – John Jones (Shoni Sguborfawr) is given a conditional pardon for his role in the Rebecca Riots.^[25]
• June – Erection of the Town Clock at Tredegar.^[26]
• 20 June – End of the Indian Rebellion of 1857, which Major General Charles Hinde plays a major role in suppressing.
• 29 August – Musician Robert Davies (Asaph Llechid) is killed by a rockfall while at work in Cae-braich-y-cafn quarry.^[27]
• 5 October – The Vale of Clwyd Railway, built by David Davies Llandinam, is opened.^[28]
• 13 October – 20 men are killed in a mining accident at Lower Duffryn Colliery, Mountain Ash.
• date unknown
  • The schooner Mary Catherine, launched at Amlwch, is the first iron ship built in Wales.^[29]
  • Richard Kyrke Penson exhibits a plan of his design for the Cilyrychen lime kilns at the Royal Academy.^[30]

• "Great Eisteddfod" at Llangollen; early appearance of Gorsedd ceremony. Ebenezer Thomas (Eben Fardd) wins first prize for his poem Maes Bosworth.

• William Davies (Gwilym Teilo) — Llandilo-Vawr and its Neighbourhood^[31]
• Robert Owen — An Introduction to the Study of Dogmatic Theology
• Louisa M. Spooner (anonymously) — Gladys of Harlech^[32]
• Alfred Russel Wallace — On the Tendency of Varieties to Depart Indefinitely From the Original Type^[33]

• Morgan Howells — Gweithiau Morgan Howells … pregethau a thraethodau (posthumously published)^[34]
• Owen Wynne Jones — Lleucu Llwyd^[35]

• Thomas Gruffydd Jones (Tafalaw Bencerdd) — Y Drysorfa Gorawl
• Edward Stephen (Tanymarian) — Requiem

• 6 January — Ben Davies, singer (died 1943)^[36]
• 28 January — Edgeworth David, explorer (died 1934)^[37]
• 9 April — Aneurin Rees, Wales rugby union international (died 1932)
• 15 May — B. B. Mann, Wales rugby union international (died 1948)
• 8 October — Robert Owen Hughes (Elfyn), journalist and poet (died 1919)^[38]
• 25 October — Tom Clapp, Wales rugby union captain (died 1933)
• 30 October - Alfred Onions, politician (died 1921)^[39]
• 18 December — Sir Owen Thomas, soldier and politician (died 1923)^[40]
• 25 December — Frederick Margrave, rugby player (died 1946)
• 26 December — Sir Owen Morgan Edwards, academic and author (died 1920)^[41]
• 27 December — Sir John Herbert Lewis, lawyer and politician (died 1933)^[42]
• 28 December — Josiah Towyn Jones, politician (died 1925)^[43]

• 10 February — Charles Hanbury-Tracy, 1st Baron Sudeley, Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire, 79^[14]
• 22 March — Mary Anne Edmunds, educator and feminist, 41^[44]
• 26 March — William Morgan, evangelical clergyman, friend of the Bronte family, 75/6
• 19 April — John Davies, Unitarian minister and teacher, 62/63^[45]
• 13 May — Lewis Loyd, banker, 91
• 30 May — Thomas ap Catesby Jones, Welsh-descended US naval officer, 68^[46]
• 4 June — Thomas Edwards (Caerfallwch), lexicographer, 78^[47]
• 16 October — Charles Norris, artist, 79^[48]
• 17 November — Robert Owen, founder of the Co-operative Society, 87^[49]
• 20 November — Sir Joseph Bailey, 1st Baronet, ironmaster, 75
• 18 December — John Salusbury Piozzi Salusbury, nephew of Hester Thrale, 65
• 27 December — John Williams, Archdeacon of Cardigan and warden of Llandovery College, 66^[50]

• 1858 in Ireland

^  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Lee, Sidney, ed. (1900). "Williams, John (1792-1858)". Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 61. London: Smith, Elder & Co.